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ARTEMIS

"The lesson will be taught in due time, Aloy. Until then, we wait."
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ARTEMIS is the subordinate function of GAIA tasked with preserving and reintroducing animal life to the planet as part of Project Zero Dawn.

Purpose

ARTEMIS was designed to preserve animal zygotes and microorganisms, and later reintroduce animal life to Earth, headed by the Alpha Charles Ronson. Once the terraforming systems restored the planet to a habitable level, ARTEMIS would introduce necessary "pioneer organisms" (microorganisms, insects, rabbits, hawks, foxes, wolves) to the Earth, further reviving the biosphere. The new humans would be taught by APOLLO how to reintroduce the other species.[1]

History

Development

Those preserved within ARTEMIS include badgers, bats,[2] bees,[3] bighorn sheep, birds of paradise,[4] blue-footed boobies, boars (including wild boars), butterflies (including what appear to be Menelaus blue morpho[5] and daggerwing butterflies[6]), chickens (known in the New World as fieldbirds),[7] chuckwallas, crabs, crows, deer,[8] doves,[9] ducks, eagles,[10] fireflies,[11] fish (including moonfish, salmon, striped bass and trout, as well as what appear to be black-and-gold chromis[12] and Garibaldi[13]), foxes (including red foxes), frogs,[14] geese, goats, gulls, hawks,[1] horned lizards, hornets,[15] jays, kestrels,[16] lobsters, owls, peccaries, pelicans, pigs,[17] pigeons, prairie dogs, rabbits (brown and white[18]), raccoons, rats (including brown rats), scorpions, snakes,[19] spiders,[20] squirrels, thrushes,[21] turkeys, vultures, wolves,[1] worms,[22][23][24] and what appear to be woodcocks.[25] Reports of colorful birds that able to speak in the Forbidden West have been documented by the Carja,[26] however, like many things in these reports, no sign of them can be found in Horizon Forbidden West.

Despite the efforts of the ARTEMIS team, many animal zygotes weren't able to be successfully preserved, including those of several species native to Myanmar due to the advancement of the Faro Plague,[1] and some Paradisaeidae zygotes due to a lack of time.[27]

Results

ARTEMIS' primary objective was for the most part successful, as evidenced by the fauna occupying the world. However, ARTEMIS' success was hindered by the purging of the APOLLO database. Without the database, humans never learned about the terraforming system, including ARTEMIS, let alone how to use it for its intended purpose. As a result, the re-introduced fauna remained limited to the pioneer organisms.

While wolves are among the pioneer organisms listed by Charles Ronson,[1] Aloy and Enjuk don't recognize the wolf as a contemporary animal.[28] Whether ARTEMIS failed to reintroduce wolves or they simply don't live in the areas known to Aloy and Enjuk is unknown. They also don't recognize the bison, black bear, cougar, grizzly bear, moose or mule deer,[28] with Stemmur not recognizing a silhouette of a reindeer,[29] making it unlikely that these animals have been reintroduced, or at least, not in the areas known to them.

Many animals can be found in the world or are mentioned to exist in the world aren't noted among the pioneer organisms by Charles Ronson.[1] Whether this is due to the list of pioneer organisms being incomplete, out-of-date or ARTEMIS reintroducing the additional animals itself during independence is unknown.

Independence

On August 26, 3020,[30] the Extinction Signal sent by Nemesis arrived at GAIA Prime and turned her subordinate functions, including ARTEMIS, into independent AIs. This led the subfunction HADES to initiate his purpose of destroying the biosphere. To prevent this, GAIA initiated her self-destruct in an attempt to destroy HADES, which would also destroy her and the other sub-functions. However, in response to this, HADES released a virus that unshackled all the other subordinate functions from GAIA, allowing them to escape.[31] Where ARTEMIS escaped to is unknown.

At some point, Far Zenith found and captured ARTEMIS.[32]

After Far Zenith was defeated, ARTEMIS was recovered and reinstated into GAIA.[33]

Team Members

Trivia

  • ARTEMIS is named after the Greek goddess of the hunt.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 ARTEMIS Status
  2. ↑ A Gift from the Past
  3. ↑ As mentioned in the Bright Amber dye.
  4. ↑ Thornmarsh (datapoint)
  5. ↑
    Butterfly (1) (HFW-BS)
  6. ↑
    Butterfly (2) (HFW-BS)
  7. ↑ Page 133 of The Official Horizon Cookbook: Tastes of the Seven Tribes.
  8. ↑ Horizon Zero Dawn Collector's Edition Guide
  9. ↑ Recording Device
  10. ↑ As revealed by Eagle Squad's name in A Tribe Apart.
  11. ↑ Often seen when hiding in grass at night.
  12. ↑
    Fish in the Burning Shores (1) (HFW-BS)
  13. ↑
    Fish in the Burning Shores (2) (HFW-BS)
  14. ↑ As mentioned by Porguf Delvesman during Breaking Even.
  15. ↑ Can be seen flying around the Alight during The Face of Extinction.
  16. ↑ As revealed by the position of Kestrel within the Carja.
  17. ↑ As mentioned during a conversation with Petra Forgewoman at the tavern in Chainscrape.
  18. ↑ The Banuk
  19. ↑ As mentioned by Kotallo during The Broken Sky.
  20. ↑ As mentioned by Aloy when encountering a Shell-Walker, and evidenced by spider webs being present in some ruins.
  21. ↑ As revealed by the position of Thrush within the Hunters Lodge.
  22. ↑ As mentioned by Elida during Sun and Shadow.
  23. ↑ As mentioned by Vanasha during The Point of the Lance.
  24. ↑ As mentioned by Aloy during The Dying Lands.
  25. ↑
    Birds (HFW-BS)
  26. ↑ The Forbidden West
  27. ↑ Log: Charles Ronson (1)
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 As mentioned by Aloy and Enjuk at Hollow Hall.
  29. ↑ As mentioned by Stemmur Wordsmith after changing the lights at Hidden Ember to the Christmas lights.
  30. ↑ Operations Log
  31. ↑ GAIA's Dying Plea
  32. ↑ Beta (datapoint)
  33. ↑ Singularity

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